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Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 02:03:53 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Btw, Jeff, while I agree about not boring about old PATA hardware,
> I'd still like to see support for MDMA modes in there. For once,
> there is no real difference in supporting both UDMA and MDMA, it's
> really just a matter of extending the range of the "mode" parameter,
> and I'd like to be able to use the driver on configs like pmacs which
> typically have a U/DMA capable channel for the internal HD and one
> MDMA only channel (ATAPI CD/DVD, ZIP) without having to play bad tricks
> to get both drivers up.


We'll see... I would really like to ignore MDMA.  For the reasons just 
outlined in replies to Linus, PATA support is quite useful in limited 
situations, but is not at all the focus of the driver.  When situations 
arise where special support for some PATA situation is needed, I will 
most likely just say "use drivers/ide"...

	Jeff


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